Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.
For the organic food, the less it's designed, the better it is
My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations.
You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. . . . If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.
My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].
We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.
Freedom is the only style. That is why I never speak about beauty or beautiful products but 'good products'. Nowadays, we have so many challenges; it is not really a priority to care for beauty. The only way for us is to focus on an ethic and ecological behaviour.
It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.
Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance.
There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.
To define it rudely but not inaptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.